Christ Surrounded by Singing and Music-making Angels or Santa María la Real de Nájera Altarpiece,[1] is a triptych by the Flemish painter of German origin Hans Memling, active in Bruges in the second half of fifteenth-century.

It took a total of 16 years, due partly to the huge surface area of the work and the complex nature of the treatment.

With his crown and his crystal ball surmounted by a cross, he reigns over the Christian kingdom, both celestial and terrestrial.

The central panel represents Christ blessing and looking down in the direction of the Virgin Mary, his mother, with three angels on either side.

[3] The panels are 170 cm (5'6") high, thus the angels, or what we can see of them (the clouds obscure the part of their body below the knee), are life-size.